Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Timothy Trebitsch near Budapest in 1879. Going to England at 20, he tacked "Lincoln" on his name, became a Lutheran missionary, then an Anglican curate, then a Quaker. As secretary to a cocoa manufacturer he turned to politics, got elected an M. P. A censor during the War, Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere...
...quantity since Jan. 30, 1933 is dramatic material. Kultur, first anti-Nazi play to appear in Manhattan, was an hysterical shambles. Birthright, the second, was little better. Easily best so far is The Shatter'd Lamp, written in England and whisked off the London stage by the censor after one performance. Races, the Theatre Guild's investigation of the same topic, was last week in rehearsal...
Food & Drugs. Rex Tugwell, bright young braintruster, has been anxious to get a bill passed to censor the labeling and advertising of foods, drugs and cosmetics. He was for months sure of the President's hearty support. However, Congress has not shown much interest. A big food & drug lobby is fighting the bill, and the President has not gone to bat for it. Its chances of passage are fading...
Over New York City's far-flung police teletype system one night last week clicked a strange order. Each & every New York policeman was directed to constitute himself a censor, see that 59 proscribed magazines were henceforth neither exhibited nor sold in the 2.000 licensed newsstands on the city streets...
Unfortunately, Mr. Wilton's revelations do not explain very much about the rather mysterious manner in which the mind of Boston's newest censor works, for he has announced that heading his list of tabooed plays are "The Vinegar Tree," "Sailor beware," "Strange Interlude," and "The Shanghai Gesture." Mr. Parker of the Transcript has his own explanation for the inclusion of the last two plays in the list; he is of the opinion that the censor is haunted, that theatrical spooks are making a hell of his life and that loudly banning plays which almost everyone has forgotten about...